In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.

In 1978, the George Mason University Foundation purchased the former Kann's department store in Arlington.

The Foundation of Perth 1829 by George Pitt Morison is an historically accurate reconstruction of the official ceremony by which Perth was founded.

* January 1 – Foundation of Fort George, Bombay laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.

An example would be WBAI's broadcasting the track " Filthy Words " from a George Carlin comedy album, which eventually led to the 1978 Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation.

In 1989 Margret Rey established the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals.

* The George C. Marshall Foundation

* Walter E. Massey, former president of Morehouse College and director of the National Science Foundation under George Bush

The George Foundation funded the library facility, designed by Ronald Wedemeyer Associates and built on of land.

* George Ayittey, economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation

After reaching sales of $ 75 million in 1941, George and Jay established The Hormel Foundation to provide perpetual independence of the company, act as trustees of the family trusts and to start and fund The Hormel Institute, a research unit at the University of Minnesota.

The Earth Day 20 Foundation highlighted its April 22 activities in George, Washington, near the Columbia River with a live satellite phone call with members of the historic Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb who called from their base camp on Mount Everest to pledge their support for world peace and attention to environmental issues.

* The coat of arms on the flag of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation was cradled in a wreath of shamrock.

George Eastman House preserved the film with the help of the American Film Institute and The Film Foundation.

" Founded by Ron Joyce, the Foundation sponsors many thousands of underprivileged children from Canada and the United States to go to one of six high-class summer camps located in Parry Sound, ON ; Tatamagouche, NS ; Kananaskis, AB ; Quyon, QC ; Campbellsville, KY ; and St. George, ON.

Amy Chua's other thesis and her conclusions have been disputed by George Leef of the John Locke Foundation, who proposes that many other factors may account for ethnic violence, including the most simple motivation of pure racism.

In 1947, Herter founded the Middle East Institute with Middle East scholar George Camp Keiser ; during this same time period, he served on the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation.

The top honorary organization in Air Force ROTC, the Arnold Air Society, is named for him, and The George C. Marshall Foundation awards the George C. Marshall / Henry " Hap " Arnold ROTC Award annually to the top senior cadet at each college or university with an AFROTC program.

Created at the instigation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and US Vice President George H. W. Bush, the organisation was founded at a joint meeting of the EDU and PDU in London, the United Kingdom.

Current members of the board of directors of the Bradley Foundation are: Dennis Kuester, George Will, San W. Orr, Jr., Terry Considine, Michael Grebe, Thomas Smallwood, Bob Smith, Cleta Mitchell, Art Pope, and David Uihlein.

George Kanahele's Hawaiian Music Foundation did much to spread slack-key and other forms of Hawaiian music, especially after a major 1972 concert.

" Susan's parents, recent divorcees, never knowing the specifics behind her poisoning but suspecting that George was somehow involved, never forgive him for this, and they appoint him to the board of directors of the Susan Ross Foundation to keep him trapped under their influence and to ensure that he would never get any of Susan's inheritance.

it was the headquarters of the animation division and the George Lucas Educational Foundation.

He joined with George Marston and other civic-minded businessmen to purchase the site of the original Presidio of San Diego, which they developed as a historic park and eventually donated to the city of San Diego.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $ 175 – 180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.

In an interview on the BBC, George Fernandes, former Indian Defence Minister and prominent Burma critic, said that Coco Island was part of India until it was donated to Burma by former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

In honor of her father, George Tyler Moore, a lifelong American Civil War enthusiast, in 1995 Moore donated funds to acquire a historic structure in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for Shepherd College ( now Shepherd University ) to be used as a center for Civil War studies.

The town was founded by merchant George W. Wright, who donated of land in February 1844, when the community was also designated the county seat.

Yale also donated 417 books and a portrait of King George I.

His contacts included such diverse and well-known personages as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Robert Ogden, Collis Potter Huntington and William Henry Baldwin Jr., who donated large sums of money to agencies such as the Jeanes and Slater Funds.

Christopher Columbus, for example, was a native of Genoa and donated one-tenth of his income from the discovery of the Americas for Spain to the Bank of Saint George in Genoa for the relief of taxation on foods.

George IV donated nearly 40 paintings to the hospital in 1824, at a stroke creating a gallery in the Painted Hall.

In 1901, Sir George Donaldson donated several pieces of art Nouveau furniture to the museum, which he had acquired the previous year at the Paris Exposition Universelle.

Bowling Green was founded in 1798 after Robert and George Moore donated an additional to to the Warren County trustees.

Rogers and his wife, Abbie Gifford Rogers, another Fairhaven native ( who was the daughter of the whaling captain Peleg Gifford ), donated many community improvements in the late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century, including a grammar school, an extraordinarily luxurious high school, the Town Hall, the George H. Taber Masonic Building, the Unitarian Memorial Church, the Tabitha Inn, the Millicent Library, and a modern water-and-sewer system.

Myopia donated the site for the General George S. Patton Memorial Park to the town of Hamilton.

The School Chapel housed an organ donated by George Frederick Handel.

* George Jay Gould I ( 1864 – 1923 ), financier and railroad executive, whose estate was donated to create Georgian Court University.

In the mid and late 1900s, Mr. George Tucker owned a large portion of the town, which he donated to the people, including a church and the local store, " Tucker's Big M ." The store, however, was sold in 2004 to the " Shur-Fine " corporation, who had a gas station put in and remodeled the storefront, and then again in 2006 to brothers-in-law Badal Singh and Sukhminder Singh, natives of India.

Established in 1776 on land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after George Washington, the first president of the United States.

Kittrell's Depot was a railroad depot named for George Kittrell and his wife, Elizabeth Boswell Kittrell, who donated the land for a Raleigh and Gaston Railroad station.

On January 8, 1852, John Crayton sold the land to George Martindale that Nancy Martindale later donated for the town of Martindale.

It was named after George Pearis, a local landowner who donated a 50 acre tract to be used for a town that would grow up around the county court house.

He donated the four corner lots at the intersection of George and Washington Streets for public buildings of the town and county, provided the town become the seat of the county separated from Berkeley County.

It was purchased in 1881 by Judge George Young and in 1905 purchased by the J. Walter Fillebrown family who donated the house to the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society in the 1970s.